In Senate, coal fuels climate deals

Forget the debate over green jobs, wind farms and solar power. In the Senate, all deals on climate change run through coal country.

Black gold has maintained a tight hold over the climate bill — despite a damaging lobbying scandal this summer, growing public health concerns and a destructive toxic coal ash spill that smothered 300 acres in eastern Tennessee last December. Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via The Politico (Politics)

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by rachel van dongen - Nov. 18, 2009

quotes senators on the record. would have benefited from some quotes from the coal lobby in order to be more balanced.

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